An online Scots grammar
The following link leads to a comprehensive Scots language grammar, complete with examples of usage from texts.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~enl038/grammar.htm
This is a detailed document and demands a sophisticated level of understanding of English grammar with many comparisons made to standard and nonstandard English forms. The following extract demonstrates the interesting differences such comparisons can lead to.
"In the interrogative, possibility is expressed by will or could, with might only in the interrogative, and only with the main verb as its scope, thus, whereas the following means to an English speaker "is it not possible that it might be broken?", to a Scottish speaker it is more likely to mean "is it possible that it might stil be whole?":
Might it no(t) be broken? (Brown and Miller, 1975: 168)"
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